Well for the past 3 days since coming home from Texas, I have been doing my yearly in-service training at work, and in todays class they had a mental health worker come speak to the class about mental health issues.
As class was dismissed I just knew I had to talk to her about JW's and that is what I did. I spoke for about 20 minutes to her and told her all about how the WT society tries to manipulate the children and instill fears, anxieties, and doubt into the children's minds.
She listened to me intently and agreed with most of the points I was making, she didnt have much knowledge of JW's beforehand, but she definitely could see how raising children in the JW religion could be detrimental to their emotional and psychiatric growth. One of the other classmates, an older woman who works as a nurse for our department listened in and joined in on the conversation. I gave them both and earfull to listen to and tried to combine it all in a short amount of time. The nurse gave me her number, and also the number to a friend who is heavily involved in SNAP, which is the group for Catholic molestation victims. I had told her all about silent lambs and that was why she gave me her friends number.
I even showed them the picture of Elsewhere holding up the 1934 yearbook, the yearbook in which the WT Society wrote a letter of support to Hitler and blamed the economic troubles of Europe on the Jews and the Anglo-American empire. It was a real eye-opener for them both and I was so thankful to share my knowledge of JW's with them. They were very receptive, in fact that mental health care worker told me in the end that JW's sound like a brain washing cult, I laughed and told her I couldnt agree more with her analysis and that I too feel they are a cult that manipulates people with fear and lies. I will keep in touch with the nurse, even though she works a different shift at the Jail than I do, and also a different housing unit.
I felt so good when I left there today, it was almost like I was on cloud-9
Dave